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The Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas, has strongly condemned the Israeli occupation forces’ latest raid on the city of Ramallah, the administrative center of the Palestinian Authority located in the central occupied West Bank. Hamas described the raid as a full-fledged crime that embodies a destructive and exterminating approach, according to Quds Press. In a statement released on Tuesday, Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi characterised the ongoing assaults by the Israeli army across West Bank governorates and the barbaric attacks in Ramallah as clear indicators of the occupation’s malicious intent to tighten its control over the region. He specifically highlighted the targeting of banks, money exchange offices, and civilian facilities as evidence of this nefarious agenda. “Attacking civilian infrastructure and storming commercial […]